The start of the year did not bode well for Florent Pagny. While filming the final season of The Voice and that he was about to start a tour for his 60th birthday, the singer learned that he was suffering from cancer. “I have just been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in the lung, which cannot be operated on. I have to go into a six-month protocol of chemotherapy and X-rays. I’m going to put myself in warrior mode to face this rather special ordeal.“, he announced on his social networks.
And indeed, Florent Pagny had recourse to several sessions of chemotherapy, which made him lose his hair and his beard. To recover quietly, the artist took refuge at home in Patagonia in Argentina, with his family made up of his wife Azucena and their children Inca, 26, and Aël, 23.
Thus, it was impossible for him to join his friends Zazie, Marc Lavoine, Pascal Obispo and Patrick Bruel for the new issue of Taratata broadcast on Saturday evening on France 2 and dedicated to the fight against cancer. “We asked Florent if he wanted to come with us, to help us fight this crap that is cancer and to sing. Florent prefers to rest, take care of himself and we totally understand him. And of course we love it!“, explained the host Nagui.
Florent Pagny still made an appearance on the show, through a video message recorded upstream from his beloved Patagonia. A message shared by Nagui. “I would have liked to be with you for an evening like this to support and mobilize against cancer. Especially since I’m largely concerned now. Exactly, I’m so concerned that I’m in a fitness phase. But hey, if all goes well, next year we’ll finally get together to sing and get individual donations that allow the development of research. And it’s starting to bear fruit since, as you can see, I feel better and better. It’s because the programs are working better and better! So we must continue the research, we must continue to fight against this disease“, he entrusted, reassuring.
His artist buddies were obviously delighted to see him briefly again and made an important point: he found hisfur“ ! “He is handsome !“, even dropped Zazie.